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Guidance Department

Welcome to the MHS Guidance department.  Here we hope to provide you with useful information. We also will provide new information as it comes available. If you have questions or comments about this section, please email:

Feel free to call the guidance office at: (985) 626 - 5225

New College Requirements
Class of 2008 and subsequent classes

• All four-year public universities - Completion of Regents' of High School Core Curriculum
  
• In order to meet the new admission requirements to be eligible to attend a four-year Louisiana university, this year’s graduating seniors must have a fourth upper level math or science course. If you are unsure if your senior student has met this requirement, please contact the Mandeville High School guidance department.

Why Do I Need To Take The High School Core Curriculum?
The Core Curriculum is the most important component of the Regents' admissions framework. Research shows that students who take college prep courses double their odds of success in college.

What is the Regents' (currently TOPS) Core?

These two-year institutions will remain open admissions:

Admissions Exceptions - 15% of entering class for each institution (in accordance with 1994 Desegregation Settlement Agreement stipulations)
Please check with the specific institution(s) in which you are intererested for additional admissions requirements.

www.regents.state.la.us

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Study Center

Interesting Links:

• How to type a bibliography - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/basic.html
• The WWW Virtual Library - http://www.vlib.org (contains many entries of books and articles in an indexed format)
• Librarian's Index to the Internet - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex (an excellent Virtual Reference Desk)
• Best Information on the Net - http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Online/onlindex.htm ( lListing of books by subject matter)
• Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org (a virtual library on your computer)
• Gale Group Reference Site - tremendous resource for research of any kind
  • From school computers - http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/lap52manhs
  • From outside of school http://galenet.gale.com (username: lap52manhs, password: lak12)

Educational/Study Links:

• A Web of On-Line Dictionaries
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
  
• Constitution of the United States
  
• The Discovery Channel On-line
  
• Education Index
  
• Elements of Style
  
• Encyclopedia Britannica
  
• High School Hub
  
• Homework Help
  
• Homework Help
  
• The Internet Classics
  
• The Internet Public Library Library of Congress
  
• Librarian's Guide to the Internet
  
• Literary Resources on the Net
  
• Louisiana Heritage Network
  
• Louisiana State Museum
  
• The New Orleans Museum of Art
  
• The Reference Desk
  
• Roget's Thesaurus
  
• Searchopolis
  
• The Smithsonian Institute
  
• St. Tammany Public Library
  
• StudyWeb
  

Informational Links:

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  
• Boston Globe
  
• Chicago Sun-Times
  
• CNN Interactive
  
• Weather Information (Local)
  
• Newspapers On-Line
  
• New York Post
  
• The New York Times
  
• St. Tammany Information
  
• USA Today
  
• Washington Post
  
• WDSU TV Channel 6 
  
• WWL TV Channel 4
  
• The Wall Street Journal

Search Engines:

• Yahoo
  
• Excite
  
• Alta Vista
  
• Lycos
  
• Google
  
• Infoseek
  
• HotBot
  
• Deja.com
  
• GoTo.com

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Course Descriptions

School to Work

The School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 is an exciting initiative for educators and students. As part of this program, partnerships will flourish among secondary and post secondary education. Employers, community groups, parents, teachers, and students will work together to better prepare students for their future careers.

The Career Options Law (Act 1124) mandates that beginning with the 1999-2000 freshman class, students will be required to complete a five year plan of their course of study. This includes four years of high school and one year of post secondary work. In order to facili-tate this law, many changes are taking place at the high school level to help students better prepare for their future.

Students will choose a career path from one of the following areas:

Engineering and Technology

Health and Human Services

Arts and Humanities

Business and Marketing

Under each broad career path there are many pathways to choose from. With the help of the homeroom teacher (Teacher as Educational Advisor and Mentor), each student will be able to choose a pathway and complete those requirements prior to graduation.

Mandeville High School is excited to be part of this new initiative. Our goal is to provide a relevant and rigorous curriculum that allows choices and options for our students.

Feel free to call the guidance office at: (504) 626 - 5225

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STPSB College Counseling Center

Scholarships

Testing Information

ACT, SAT and PSAT / NMSQT

ACT Dates
ACT School Code: 191-660

*Test is given at MHS. MHS high school code is 191-660. Register online at www.actstudent.org or with the registration packet available in guidance. Free ACT test taking tips are available at http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/index.html.

SAT Dates
SAT School Code: 191-660

MHS does NOT administer the SAT. Our school code is 191-660. Find test locations and register online at www.collegeboard.com or with a registration packet available in the guidance office.

Free SAT preparation and test-taking tips are available at :

www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/prep_one/prep_one.html
or http://www.satprepplan.com

PSAT/NMSQT TESTING INFO

Mandeville High School will offer the PSAT (Preliminary SAT)/NMSQT(National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test) on Saturday, October 20, 2007. Juniors who wish to participate in the National Merit Scholarship competition should take the test. It is also effective as a practice SAT for interested Juniors and/or Sophomores as well as a practice NMSQT for sophomores. Students may sign up for the PSAT/NMSQT in the Guidance Office with Ms. Rhodes through September 28th. The cost of the test is $20.00,and checks must be made payable to M.H.S.

Information about the PSAT and free helpful preparation, material may be found at www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/psat/about.html or www.princetonreview.com or www.kaplan.com.

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Counselors

• Counsel Students Academically when needed
• Advise on TOPS
• Schedule Changes
• Translate/Interpret new Student Transcripts
• Coordinate group Parent/Teacher Conferences
• Child abuse reporting
• Suicide/Crisis Intervention
• Share ISS duties

Individual responsibilities:

Freshmen - Courtney Weileman

• Coordinates iLEAP testing & assists with PLAN & GEE tests
• Coordinates Option 3 Regular Education Students
• Conducts Freshman Orientation & Feeder School Outreach
• Conducts Gifted & Talented screenings

 

Sophomores - Richard Yeadon

• Coordinates ACT testing
• Coordinates ACT special testing accommodations
• Coordinates ASVAB testing
• Coordinates PLAN testing
• Coordinates HOBY nomination and selection process
  
  

• Serves as Student Achievement Team (SAT) Representative 
• Coordinates NCAA Clearinghouse registrations for student athletes
• Assists with all school testing
• Administers National Merit paperwork
• Coordinates Student of the Year Selection
• Coordinates Scholarship information

St. Tammany Parish College Counselors:

Annette O'Regan and Christine Woodard (985) 898-6478

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